Please see if I got it wrong

You added a sunlight just to adjust the exposure of the candlelight and background light combination. That's why you deleted sunlight after adjustment. That's right?

https://cgcookie.com/lesson/hdri-world-backgrounds?wtime=552

  • Wendy Robinson(wendy10698) replied

    That's what it looked like to me.

  • adrian replied

    Correct sivasu ,

    The sun is deleted, it was added to get a correct value for the candle light.